Not Sewing

I finished the pink barn on Saturday, and I cleaned the studio and did this:

I made bread. (You can get my recipe & how to here.) It was actually because I made ricotta cheese. After I scooped the cheese into a container for a pasta recipe I will cook later this week, I was left with a white liquid (the "whey"). I used the whey as the liquid for making the bread, so I didn't waste anything when I made the ricotta cheese.

I don't have room in my freezer for the extra loaves of bread, so I gave two loaves to my family members who were only too glad to drive over to my house to pick it up.

My sewing this week will be limited to binding quilts, which I will do while I watch the remaining episodes of Country Music on PBS.

On Saturday I'll be teaching my Liberated Letters class at Quilted Threads.

If you can't attend the class, you can get my tutorial here, at my Etsy shop. It's an instant download, so you can get started right away.          

Hand Sewing to Country Music

I've had the scrappy diamond Magic Carpet quilt ready for binding now for many weeks, but since I spent much of my vacation time in California, I didn't get it done then. Usually I work on the binding while I "watch" TV.

This week, Country Music, the documentary by Ken Burns, started showing, so I've been sewing the binding on the quilt while I watch it.

See that quilt that is hanging on the wall behind my TV? That's a quilt by my quilting idol, Wanda Hanson, who blogs at Exuberant Color.

I'll tell anybody who'll listen that in my not so humble opinion, NOBODY, but NOBODY in the quilting world knows color like Wanda does. There's a reason why her quilt dominates my living room. It is that good. Wanda is that good.